I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
re ; HS internet / dad .
he aintta payin it , let em keep it .
dang rain day here this am . that changes everything and nothing . ill shift gears and jump into something altogether different -- like canning apples .. now i have the last three fabrication messes stacked up out front . dont want to clean em up too quickly . bits of the three messes can be hacked up and incorporated into the next project . left over 2 x 10 pieces = pantry shelving ..
Dad tried to get on the Internet yesterday but said he couldn't connect.... I've given up trying to tell him it's because he's on dial-up in a huge metro area... told him that yesterday was baseball playoffs and college football so people were on-line watch the game... now if he had high-speed internet he would get on... well, he's not going to pay for that.... that's the child of the Great Depression talking.... [sigh]
I am far from intact there Mr. Cap. Actually, my non-intactness is a lifesaver. If I am too intact, I tend to get very mouthy and opinionated and whoops, there goes my sissy brothers :/ Envy is one of those deadly sins Bob, take this time to grieve and move forward. The lucky woman will be happy you did :P
Someday's I just feel like tossing everything into the garbage bin and starting over. Fresh start. Clean slate.
FF.... my best suggestion is to just DO IT. Anxiety is nothing to play with and your parent's will JUST have to learn to understand. They have NO choice. Do not feel guilty. Head banging was a rock thing at one time?
beef plate is a layer of 100 % lean beef located in the underbelly where youd find bacon on a hog .. we cut it into jar height strips and rolled it into a cylinderic shape .
Suggested that Dad tell me what he actually needs, I will go on-line, order it, and have it delivered to their house..... Dad doesn't want to pay delivery fees..... [bagging head against the wall].
hes eventually going to die but he isnt even going to know it ..
i dont even have the energy to whine tonight . i swung real wide today and done the trk tool box install job . id like to get back to canning but thats going to require some shelving reconfig . the available shelves are full and i still have 15 gallons of apples to cut up and can .
just wow. its been like this for a year now -- no starting or ending point .
i might be getting my own life back but sometimes i think ive been " chumped " . lol . not at all like the brochure ..
i envy those of you with a spouse.
the tool box is cool , maybe one of a kind . sits rearward and overtop of the truck cab . it'll be common equiptment in 5 years . everything i ever built was a few years ahead of the world .
laggards !!
Managed to get her up and keep her since 12:00 noon. Last night around 3:00 a.m. I heard a crashing sound and thought boy.... this is it!! She'd fell onto the coffee table, thankfully breaking nothing. Some gibberish about how those people told her she needed to do something. What people?? Yikes. I have been trying to keep her busy today so she'll be so tired she'll pass out tonight (fingers crossed) I can already see the agitation setting in as she's tapping that leg a mile a minute. Gonna take her to the grocery store and a small ride to see if I can squelch some of this.
Veronica, I once saw someone cooking a "coon". I opened the lid and it's head popped out bearing teeth and big eyeballs ...it was hairless by that time but I will never ever forget that sight (shudder) looked like my friends poodle ;)
But the making of brawn/headcheese is perfectly, beautifully described in "Little House In The Big Woods." Love that whole series. You could use it as a pioneer's manual.
Pam I think the dog chunks take about 90 minutes to can safely IF you plan to eat them. otherwise if you just intend to use them to get rid of unwanted guests earlier than they planned they should be fine. Just invite them into the pantry to help you decide "what's for dinner" Remember to do the paws seperately for pickled feet and boil the head well for brawn. CM will tell you how to make that. The eyes are very difficult to get out but worth the trouble if you have Middle Eastern friends. Hope Boni does not read this . Of course if your visitors are Chinese you will have to try something else. Roadkill anyone?
alright then . im out of quart mason jars . have to go look at a chimney for a guy in a little while , maybe he has some . people out here in the sticks have a black market of sorts . one such neighbor hooked me up yesterday with a really heavy gauge truck tool box that can ( will ) be cut up and reconfigured to build three boxes for my smaller truck .
my whine is there is only one of me , no help. the aftermath of my last two projects hasnt been cleared from the driveway yet . had to shift to apple canning -- they wont wait .
40 yrs at hard labor to date . whats the govt think were made of , titanium ?
fn kill me ..
I use to enjoy driving at night, loved seeing all the lights in the office buildings, etc. The monuments, the White House, and Capital Building are awesome at night :) Out where I live the main roads are well lit but the side roads forgetaboutit. I feel like I am driving in a black hole in the universe.
How do you like this sudden drop in temps outside?... maybe part of my issue was barometric pressure going amuck.
why are you out of white whine ? why arent you stomping some grapes ? when are you going to start stomping the grapes ? , and so on ..
bluntman used to be the grape stomper in our house . he was bout 4 yrs old and fit very well down inside of a crock . ill have to ask if he remembers .
That's enough whining! Spaghetti carbonara with dry sherry instead of white wine? Eeuw. Bacon and mushroom penne with sage. 'Sgonna have to do...
To Veronica91 and CountryMouse... I had the ultrasound done yesterday and the stone is neatly tucked away so no urgency at the moment. Anywho, I do have an appointment with a kidney stone specialist. At least now the doctor waiting rooms are for ME for a change :)
Captain, wish I could call in my closest cousins but they are older than I am and still recovering from caring for their parent. Example, one cousin [also an only child] moved into a retirement community himself with his wife because he couldn't take care of his Mom's house and his house, too, which he had been doing for over 20 years... his Mom refused to move to assisted living/nursing home... she past at 100. He is still helping out his wife's Mom who is over 100 and still on her own. It's that generation, my Mom and her sisters and their mother were all tough women who usually got their way.
ill live to eat these m f ' n apples -- with my grandkids ..
its a shame you couldnt trade responsibilities with a cousin . im saying your parents can wear you out . youve heard their incessant crap for a lifetime . " innocently " getting a cuz / friend to help with your parents as you trade off with their parents , in some situations could be crazy enough to work .
im sitting here canning apples today and discovering a million things about myself ranging from why my 18 yr marriage collapsed to who the hell i am . my family visited a guy and his wife once when i was maybe 6 yrs old . they had a beautiful old root cellar stocked with every concievable type of canned up food stuff . that striking image never left my head and never will . then there was aunt edna who prepared meager but delicious meals for us 3 kids when mom and dad were lacking in that area . she also was a woodsman , gardner , and " survivalist " . these are the influences in my life . my sons were raised in that exact setting except our home was handmade , old world , goth themed , and our cellar was slightly more modern with fluorescent lighting . i think i know who they are even as theyre out trying to find it themselves . i guess when i told my son a while back that he should pay attention for when he canned food someday ( and you will ) i told him , well he wont find himself until he does . that isnt my dream , its him and bluntmans reality . theyre halfway there as cooking buffs already . if they had better priorities both would have already built their first homes . not my problem , thats theirs to figure out .
edna was looking great yesterday at nh . those people are sharp . i hope shes around for me to hug tightly for years to come , senile or otherwise . she helped shape my family and future generations of same .